This conditioning set is designed to take about an hour. The total time depends on your current fitness level and how quick you can perform each set. This workout can be done on your own or with a partner. Warm-up 200 free 100 breast/back 100 eggbeater (hit all directions) 75 bunny hop/Chair A bunny hop [...]

This shooting drill designed for water polo goalies is a variation of this shooting drill. Instead of working on blocking a shot out of 2-meters, in this drill we’re working on our ability to steal an entry pass into 2-meters. The Set-up A passer at the 2-spot. A shooter at the 4-spot. And a 2-meter [...]

Warm up 200 free 100 breast/back 100 eggbeater (hit all directions) 75 bunny hop/Chair A bunny hop is just a vertical breaststroke kick. Make sure to hit forward, left, and right as part of the 75 bunny hop. The chair is your bring your legs, hips, and feet underneath you like you are sitting upright [...]

This conditioning workout can be done without a partner and should take about an hour maybe less. Warm up 200 free 100 breast/back 100 eggbeater (hit all directions) 75 bunny hop/Chair A bunny hop is just a vertical breaststroke kick. Make sure to hit forward, left, and right as part of the 75 bunny hop. [...]

A conditioning set for water polo goalies. This one can be done on your own. This set is a little slower than yesterday’s set and will probably take over an hour to get done. Warm up 200 free 100 breast/back legs 75 bunny hop/Chair A bunny hop is just a vertical breaststroke kick. Make sure [...]

Below is a conditioning set I made for my goalies. And yes, I did it too. Total time is about an hour but it’ll depend on how fast you move and how much recovery time you need between each set. We moved from one set to the next with each break lasting no more than [...]

This shooting drill for water polo goalies builds off the basic two line cross pass to a shot drill. We’ve added a 2-meter offense and defense player and gave the shooter the option to either shot the ball off the cross pass or enter the ball to 2-meters. Like the basic cross pass drill, we [...]

Today’s water polo goalie highlight video comes courtesy of Matthew Tran from Beckman High School in Irvine, California. My usual disclaimer. My thanks to all the goalies out there that make their highlight videos available for all to see. During these reviews, if I’m being critical it is not just to be critical. If I [...]

The purpose of this water polo goalie shooting drill is to work on the goalie’s recovery speed, leg strength, cage awareness, and blocking a close-range shot. In an ideal world when a goalie makes a save they will control the ball down in front of them. We live in the real world. We’re doing everything [...]

This water polo shooting drill is a variation to Rapid Fire Alternating Cross Pass Catch and Shoot. The Set-Up There is a passer at the point. A shooter on both sides of the cage. In the video below I have one field player between the 1 & 2 spot on the right hander’s strong side. [...]